Thomas Baptiste

Born: 1929-03-17

Thomas Baptiste was born on March 17, 1929 in Georgetown, British Guiana. He was an actor, known for The Wild Geese (1978), The Ipcress File (1965) and for playing Coronation Street's first black character. He died on December 6, 2018 in Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, England.


See
Placeholder

The Wild Geese

as Col. Mboya
Released: 1978-06-28

A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It...

Movie page

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

as Dambala (Segment 3 "Voodoo")
Released: 1965-02-23

Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read...

Movie page
as Barney
Released: 1965-03-18

Sly and dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer is tasked with investigating British Intelligence...

Movie page
See!

Help!

as uncredited
Released: 1965-07-29

An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts...

Movie page

Sunday Bloody Sunday

as Prof. Johns
Released: 1971-07-01

Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod...

Movie page

Shaft in Africa

as Kopo
Released: 1973-06-14

Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

Movie page

Guns at Batasi

as uncredited
Released: 1964-10-30

An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat...

Movie page

Sapphire

as Man on the Street
Released: 1959-11-02

Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been...

Movie page

Black Snake

as Isiah
Released: 1973-03-28

A man searches for his brother on an island where a vicious woman keeps slaves on a plantation.

Movie page

Rise and Fall of Idi Amin

as Dr. Michael Oloya
Released: 1981-07-16

The chronicle of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and his tyranic rule from 1971 to his overthrow in 1979.

Movie page

The Comedians

as Haitian Soldier (uncredited)
Released: 1967-10-31

American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.

Movie page

Nairobi Affair

as uncredited
Released: 1984-01-01

A former green beret is hired by the Kenyan government to stop increasingly bold and violent...

Movie page

Web of Evidence

as Haydock
Released: 1959-04-28

A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for...

Movie page

In the Cool of the Day

as Murray Logan's chauffeur (uncredited)
Released: 1963-05-29

After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple, the bored, fragile wife falls...

Movie page

Ghost in the Noonday Sun

as Abdullah
Released: 1973-01-01

A pirate crewman kills his captain after learning where he has hidden his buried treasure....

Movie page

Fable

as Mark
Released: 1965-01-27

In Great Britain a reversal of African apartheid comes into place, and the country is governed...

Movie page

The Class Of Miss MacMichael

as Visitor
Released: 1979-01-27

A dedicated teacher tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative...

Movie page

The Secret Laughter of Women

as Papa Fola
Released: 1999-11-26

Oscar-winner Colin Firth stars in this heart-warming cross-cultural romantic comedy set in the...

Movie page

The Small World of Sammy Lee

as Café Patron
Released: 1963-04-20

The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he...

Movie page

Escape From Kampala

as Minawa
Released: 1991-08-08

The true story of a daring prison break. Wycliffe Kato, Director of Civil Aviation in Idi Amin's...

Movie page

Countdown at Kusini

as John Okello
Released: 1976-04-16

An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in...

Movie page

Flame in the Streets

as Boyfriend
Released: 1961-06-19

Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions...

Movie page

Pal

as Norman
Released: 1971-12-02

Two sworn enemies, one black and the other white, are forced to confront their prejudices when...

Movie page

The Music Machine

as Claire's Father
Released: 1979-05-01

At a famous London disco venue, a competition is announced to select two dancers to star in a...

Movie page

In the Beautiful Caribbean

as Zikky
Released: 1972-02-03

Play set in the Caribbean showing how life is hard and a struggle, with problems of unemployment...

Movie page

Jemima + Johnny

as Jemima's Dad (as Tommy Baptiste)
Released: 1967-01-02

A white boy and a black Jamaican girl have a day out in a city where racial hostility prevails.

Movie page

King

as Mr. King
Released: 1984-04-03

A man who has had a good life in England wants to retire to Jamaica, but the celebration with...

Movie page

Honeybaby, Honeybaby

as Gen. Christian Awani
Released: 1974-10-01

Liv, a mercenary, is drawn into a mission to rescue a kidnapped politician. He travels to the...

Movie page

Drums Along Balmoral Drive

as Badinga
Released: 1986-08-06

'I don't think at first I thought at all. I had a nice house, lovely kids. I didn't think about...

Movie page

The Attendant

as The Attendant
Released: 1993-09-10

Memory mixes with desire as a museum attendant is caught up in sado-masochistic fantasies...

Movie page

Ama

as Babs
Released: 1991-09-06

A golden floppy disk becomes a prophetic device through which a young Ghanaian girl living in...

Movie page

Minder

as Mr. Mikabwe
First aired: 1979-10-29

This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and...

TV Show page

EastEnders

as Henry Chadwick
First aired: 1985-02-19

The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square...

TV Show page

The Saint

as Grant
First aired: 1962-10-04

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who...

TV Show page

The Saint

as Police Sergeant
First aired: 1962-10-04

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who...

TV Show page

Crown Court

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-10-11

Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the...

TV Show page

Crown Court

as Haverstock Brown QC
First aired: 1972-10-11

Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the...

TV Show page

The Professionals

as Huntley
First aired: 1977-12-30

The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their...

TV Show page

Return of the Saint

as President Obono
First aired: 1978-09-10

Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.

TV Show page

Maigret

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-10-31

BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector...

TV Show page

Divorce His, Divorce Hers

as Minister
First aired: 1973-02-06

The dissolution of an 18-year marriage, seen first from his point-of-view and then from hers.

TV Show page